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Happy New Year.  What is your goal for the New Year? When money, work or academics come with measurable standards for achievement, health was seldom on the top of the list until recent years. Being healthy couldn’t be made by a wish, or ensured by insurance coverage or taking health products.    When prolonged life expectancy is a norm nowadays, no one would enjoy a poor quality of life just like if you have to take multiple medications every day, attend multiple specialities frequently and spend most of the time in elder homes or hospitals and this may consume 20-30% of...

My first experience of a charity was when my mum and her friends set up The Springboard Project, a school program for English speaking children in Hong Kong with special educational needs. They started it because they couldn’t find anywhere in hong Kong for my brother and his friends to go to school. Looking back now, I see that those women saw a need and a gap that existed in the community, refused to accept it and chose to address it.     Since joining HandsOn Hong Kong 6 years ago, I’ve seen that most charities begin that way and HandsOn is no exception. It was founded...